Excellent discussion-- er, lecture on a useful topic. I often begin a story or sometimes a chapter at a distance, describing the scene or even the town, and then I zoom in until settling into my character's head. I also use distance in my memoirs when I pull back from my teen years to reflect from my current, adult perspective. And in the normal flow of my writing, I'll create distance as needed to advance the plot -- especially to move forward in time. Indeed, narrative distance is an important tool, a tool many writers use intuitively. I'm curious, though, about your questioning whether it's possible to write a first-person objective POV while you say it's common in third. Aren't first person and close third POVs virtually identical but for different pronouns? Enquiring minds want to know. I understand what you mean by objectivity but hadn't heard of it put this way before. This is now something for me to look into. Thank you.
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“Can the people way in the back still hear me?”
Ooooooh, I see what you did there. Very nice, veeeeery nice. LOL
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Excellent discussion-- er, lecture on a useful topic. I often begin a story or sometimes a chapter at a distance, describing the scene or even the town, and then I zoom in until settling into my character's head. I also use distance in my memoirs when I pull back from my teen years to reflect from my current, adult perspective. And in the normal flow of my writing, I'll create distance as needed to advance the plot -- especially to move forward in time. Indeed, narrative distance is an important tool, a tool many writers use intuitively.
I'm curious, though, about your questioning whether it's possible to write a first-person objective POV while you say it's common in third. Aren't first person and close third POVs virtually identical but for different pronouns? Enquiring minds want to know.
I understand what you mean by objectivity but hadn't heard of it put this way before. This is now something for me to look into. Thank you.